Saturday, April 1, was Opening Day, so I opened a nice Cabernet and enjoyed a glass — or two? did I have two? — with an excellent cheese from Treats, in Wiscasset, a terrific little shop that I find really difficult to pass without stopping in. You think it’s a coincidence that fishing season opens […]

Fishing and baseball. Their seasons are aligned almost perfectly. Opening Day arrives at Fenway Park and Upper Dam in April, a few days apart. The Red Sox season just ended, in October; fishing continues at the Dam through the Sox-less World Series and Thanksgiving, for the angler who doesn’t mind flirting with frostbite. At camp […]

It’s useful to keep a fishing log, or angling diary, if you don’t succumb to angleritis and stretch, push, pull and hammer reality into a better story. An honest accounting of the day’s fishing — which many people believe that we, as a class, are incapable of — can be instructive as well as humbling […]